Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Fiji and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Mighty Diamonds to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by the Germs. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Stereo Dub,
H. Thieme,
Carl Craig,
Danielle Patucci,
The Sound,
Subhumans,
Los Fastidios,
Graham Central Station,
The Shadows of Knight,
JFA,
Babytalk,
The Gun Club,
Goldenarms,
Television,
Vladislav Delay,
Sam Rivers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Swans,
Technova,
Dave Gahan,
Wire,
DJ Sneak,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Golliwogs,
Eden Ahbez,
Average White Band,
Fatback Band,
MC5,
Sarah Menescal,
The Pretty Things,
Motorama,
Von Mondo,
The Count Five,
Marc Almond,
Steve Hackett,
Bluetip,
B.T. Express,
Aloha Tigers,
La Düsseldorf,
John Lydon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Depeche Mode,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monks,
Visage,
Ossler,
The Pop Group,
Alice Coltrane,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Smog,
Au Pairs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sparks,
The Names,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Gladiators,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rotary Connection,
The Fuzztones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.